Apple trying to do Ad business is just like google trying to do Phone business and like Microsoft trying to do Search business.
Sadly the same ending.
What is the "ending"?
What's "sad" about it?
Who feels this sorrow?
Apple trying to do Ad business is just like google trying to do Phone business and like Microsoft trying to do Search business.
Sadly the same ending.
But yet, when Macrumours publish a positive Analyst-Apple-Report many people here are ready to lick it up... and take the report as being accurate.
Apple are finding iAds very tough sell, due to being expensive and having a lot of control over the content. Advertisers are used to more freedom.
Prove it. [i.e., quote a post here which backs your bs.]So True. Analysts are only stupid when they release data that conform to Jobsian Euphoria
Prove it. [i.e., quote a post here which backs your bs.]
Don't you love all these "experts" who get well paid for GUESSING!
The are as bad as the weather forecasters - I take that back - at least there is some hard science in weather forecasting.
This a sign of yet another Wall Street insider short sell scam? I mean Apple stock has been climbing steadily and some may see this as time to "cut it down to size."
"Analysts" predict something then change their mind. Not sure if this affects Apple's plans and I'm pretty sure that Apple have done nothing that was going to affect the outcome of some analyst hokum either way. I really don't understand these companies, they talk utter **** then change their mind when they realise they were way off the mark and suggest that the company have done something wrong.
It's somewhere between comical, manipulative and incompetent.
LOL @ people discounting Apple's entire effort at advertising based on one macrumors garbage article, which was based on a guess.
L.O.L.
You take this awfully personal. But just so you dont pop a blood vessel here you go:
Percent is percent. It doesn't matter how big the market is. If they had predicted Apple would have 21% of the market and they only have 8% that is underperforming no matter how you spin it. Basically other companies were able to take advantage of the growing market and Apple was not.
And, of course, Apple sells two models of Iphone - not one.
So True. Analysts are only stupid when they release data that conform to Jobsian Euphoria
Yea but this is putting up apple's 1 phone against how many? Almost a hundred or so by now?
Apple trying to do Ad business is just like google trying to do Phone business and like Microsoft trying to do Search business.
Sadly the same ending.
Better in what sense? You are comparing a Mobile Desktop Workstation with a MBP? The nice thing about the MBP is, that it is a refined product. Relatively powerful and yet, portable with a good battery life. Faster, bigger, etc, doesn't necessarily translate into better.
Good luck with that
I hope it is better than the Top of the Line Dell Mobile Workstation I had a few years back, though, which, apart from the Screen, was a piece of junk. But it made me buying a MBP, so, yeah...![]()
Something tells me he will still require further proof. If your really lucky you might even be called a troll but it is the Holiday season so who knows!
These new numbers make much more sense... i can't see how Apple's iAds can have equal share to Google's, since iAds only works on Apple's platform; and Apple only has 20% (or so) smartphone market share. P.
Google is about to own more of the smart phone market than Apple, in the next quarter or two. Their CEO said that the investment into Android has already paid for itself many times over, even though Android is open-source and free.
Bing is actually not a bad search engine, though I have no idea if Microsoft has made a profit off that investment. It has beaten Yahoo and has taken some share from Google.
I'd be curious to know what this ending is, and why it's sad? Google seems pretty happy these days.
[lol.wut?]
What is the "ending"?
What's "sad" about it?
Who feels this sorrow?
[lol.wut?]
What is the "ending"?
What's "sad" about it?
Who feels this sorrow?
Apple trying to do Ad business is just like google trying to do Phone business and like Microsoft trying to do Search business.
Sadly the same ending.
Of course it helps their market share. And the buy one get one free crap helps too. Buy one iPhone wannabe phone, give one to someone who would normally not buy an iPhone wannabe to begin with and you're doubling your market share.
Brilliant! BOGO is awesome. So if the Droid x or whatever isnt good enough for apple fans, fine. But for the majority of america who likes to be wise with their money it is a sweet deal. Every two years on a contract is great. Im sure if apple started doing it nobody would complain.giving away or discounting phones has been going on for a long time now. Apple could just as easily give away or discount hardware just like everyone else, but then that would mean steve jobs would have to accept less than obscene margins.
Whats funny is all the steve jobs nuthuggers who are so brainwashed they actually think getting free or discounted hardware is a bad thing for consumers